Classic Movie Monsters Quiz

His role as "The Mummy" begins as a team of explorers unearths the mummified remains of an Egyptian priest named Imhotep.

In 1954, the atomic bombings of Japan in World War II were still very much a part of world culture. Japanese filmmakers used the attacks as inspiration for Godzilla.

Lon Chaney, Jr. was so popular in his role as the werewolf that he played the character in four sequels.

His own father beats him to death with a walking stick -- a silver walking stick that happens to have the power to kill a supernatural creature.

The 1933 classic has been remade twice, once in 1976 and once in 2005.

A film crew looking for fame manages to capture Kong on Skull Island and then makes a critical error in deciding to transport the creature to New York City.

Released in 1931, the film is based on the novel of the same name and features a scientist who fabricates a monster from parts of dead bodies.

In one unforgettable scene, the monster throws a girl into a lake, resulting in her death. Censors originally wanted to cut out dozens of scenes that ultimately survived the editing process.

In "The Fly," Goldblum plays the title character. The fly is both horrific and disgusting but winds up earning sympathy, too.

The claustrophobic setting of 1982's "The Thing" is heightened by the fact that it takes place in the frigid, windswept desert of Antarctica. Frantic human survivors have nowhere to run.

This 1922 film came from Germany. Many copies were destroyed when Bram Stoker's family (of "Dracula" fame) sued the makers of "Nosferatu."

Nosferatu is a vampire who goes by the name of Count Orlock. His bald head and creepy long fingers made him an unforgettably terrifying character.

As he attacks an innocent woman, a beam of sunlight strikes him, turning him into smoke. Sadly, the woman dies, too.

The big eyeball also has tentacles, all the better to create a feeling of horror.

Lugosi was Dracula, the king of vampires. It was inspired partly by the 1897 novel written by Bram Stoker.

The hero named Van Helsing drives a wooden stake through the monster's heart, ending his reign of terror.

"Rodan! The Flying Monster!" was all about a huge dragon-like creature that lays waste to Japanese cities. The "giant-monster" trend was well-established in Japan and several of the films made it big in the U.S., too.

He really wanted Kong to seem to be 50 feet tall, but in some scenes he's not even half that tall, thanks to the scale of the models used for filming.

A magic potion begins the transformation, and as Mr. Hyde, the doctor can follow all of his most evil impulses.

Thanks to atomic tests gone awry, huge ants begin what seems to be an unstoppable attack on civilization. Fortunately, people have flamethrowers.

He manipulates a sleepwalking man to kill his unsuspecting victims. The film was meant to portray the mindlessness of the German populace following World War I.

An atomic bomb thaws a huge dinosaur called a Rhedosaurus, which then rampages through New York City.

A sharpshooter rides to the top of a roller coaster, takes aim, and then blasts a radioactive grenade at the bad-tempered monster.

This classic movie really was filmed and screened in 3-D. The story follows a research team that finds a set of weird bones in the Amazon.

Scientists inject rabbits with a special hormone with the intent of stopping them from breeding. What they wind up with is a bunch of killer bunnies dead-set on revenge.

The 1984 film was basically ignored by critics and audiences alike, but eventually it became a cult sensation thanks to popular midnight screenings.

The bizarre Gill-man can attack people both on land and in the water, making it a dual-threat beast. The team eventually kills the monster with a hail of gunfire.

A meteorite loaded with an alien type of amoeba lands in the countryside and begins infecting humans. Every time it claims a victim, the Blob gets larger and larger.

They freeze it and then drop it into an Arctic area, where it will remain harmless forever. When the movie was made in 1958, global warming clearly wasn't a concern.

In 1985, "The Stuff" highlighted the idea of rampant consumerism and artificial junk foods. The "stuff" was a weird white dessert that people couldn't stop eating, thanks to a parasite that invaded their brains and turned them into zombies.